DR. ELIZABETH FISHER (email:eaf@gwu.edu), Professor of Classics and former chair of the Department of Classics and Semitics, teaches courses on Greek and Latin language, literature, and culture and specializes in the survival, reception, and reinterpretation of classical literature through translation and imitation, especially in the medieval Greek literary tradition of Byzantium. She has presented papers and published articles on this topic in the U.S. and Europe and has herself translated the "Life of the Patriarch Nikephoros" in Defenders of the Images (Dumbarton Oaks1998). She has also published the Greek text of orations on holy subjects by the 11th-century Byzantine polymath Michael Psellos and written an original mock-epic starring a wandering parrot ("Epic Parrot/ Parrot Epic: The Parrodyssey," Classical Outlook 1988). Recipient of the BA in Classics from Northwestern University and the MA and PhD in Classical Philology from Harvard University, she has been awarded fellowships at The Center for Hellenic Studies and Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies.

DR. REBECCA FUTO KENNEDY (email: rkennedy@gwu.edu), Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics, received her BA from UCSD in Classical Studies in 1997 and her MA/PhD in Greek and Latin from Ohio State University in 2003. Before coming to GWU, she taught at Howard University for 2 years. Her primary research interests are in political culture in 5th century BC Athens focusing mostly on the influence of the Athenian democracy and Empire on tragedy and historiography. Her most recent publication is "Justice, Geography and Empire in Aeschylus' Eumenides" in Classical Antiquity (2006).

DR. ERAN LUPU (email: elupu @ gwu.edu), Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics, was born and raised in Israel. He received his BA in Greek and Latin from Tel Aviv University. He was awarded a grant from the Fulbright Foundation to pursue doctoral study in the United States. He received his PhD in Classical Studies from Johns Hopkins University. He has also been a visiting student at Cornell University and a Student Associate Member and Hirsch Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. His main research interests are epigraphy and religion in the Graeco-Roman world, on which he has published a number of articles and, most recently, a book entitled Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) (Leiden, 2005). He is one of the co-editors of the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae (CIIP).

DR. JOHN ZIOLKOWSKI (email: ccojez@gwu.edu), Professor Emeritus of Classics at George Washington University, received his BA in Greek from Duke University in 1958 and his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1963. After teaching at Randolph-Macon Woman's College for three years, he came to GWU in 1967. He has served as Chairman of his Department (1971-1988; and several annual appointments since then), President of the Washington Classical Society (1972-74) and of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States (1993-94). In addition to working on various aspects of classical influence on the architecture of Washington, D. C., he has published articles on Greek and Roman literature, Roman music, and Plato's Symposium. During the 2004-2005 school year, he prepared two groups of students to give lectures on classical influences at the Lincoln Memorial for junior high students from Richmond, Va. (Oct. 13 and 21); conducted a bus tour of Classical Washington, DC for visiting FBI delegation from Mauritius (April 3) and a walking tour of classical DC for visiting Dean's Scholars from Chile (April 23). He conducted a "second annual" tour in 2006 for the same program of Dean's Scholars (April 15).